From Cat Power's bittersweet ode to Manhattan, to the heartbreakers in Haim, to Solange's flea market dance routine, to Vampire Weekend's Last Supper, to Kanye's pop-up projections, here are 25 videos that made us stop and watch this year.

Chris Molanphy breaks down the first quarter century of Billboard's Modern Rock chart-- from the Cure, to Nirvana, to Marcy Playground, to Linkin Park, to Incubus, to Phoenix-- finding an ever-shifting definition of what "alternative" means.

The R&B great and Phoenix frontman Thomas Mars talk to Ryan Dombal about their unlikely Coachella performance and collaborative remix, as well as what Mars' father-in-law Francis Ford Coppola thought of "Trapped in the Closet".

With the follow-up to 2009's wildly successful breakthrough Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix in mind, the French quartet sit down with Ryan Dombal to ruminate on the nature of success, complacency, and whether all their hard work was really worth it.